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White Wall Cinema presents: RIFIFI
7th August 2023 @ 6:45 pm – 10:00 pm
- DOORS: 6.45pm*
- START TIME: 7.45pm*
- RUN TIME: 115 mins
- CERT: 12 (Under 15s must be accompanied by an adult)
Legendary French film director Francois Truffaut called it ‘the best Film Noir I have ever seen’. Jules Dassin’s Rififi is a twisting tale of four robbers who plan one last jewellry heist in 1950’s Paris.
Getting out of prison after a five year stretch, exhausted master thief Tony le Stéphanois initially turns down a heist job offered by friends. However, once he discovers his girlfriend is now dating a rival gangster, Tony sets about planning his next job. Meticulously considering every detail, he fails to account for one thing, human weakness.
Influencing everything from Reservoir Dogs to Oceans Eleven, not only did Rififi invent the modern heist movie, it still stands as perhaps the greatest example of the genre ever constructed. As well as its dazzlingly breathless heist sequence, Dassin’s film is notable for its humanist qualities that extend well beyond the action, as the film commits to fully realising the fate of its characters and the wages of sin.
